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net: usb: dm9601: fix wrong return value in dm9601_mdio_read
authorJavier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com>
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:20:06 +0000 (00:20 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 Mar 2024 14:38:45 +0000 (14:38 +0000)
commit1e2cbdbdfa7665d7e0d20ebd4a79a543b63f83d6
tree0658a1f17f2415bd0c8a365c6fbb9974af20a6a9
parent9b1f5c00328459af6f59d926b9d841ec9e541b58
net: usb: dm9601: fix wrong return value in dm9601_mdio_read

[ Upstream commit c68b2c9eba38ec3f60f4894b189090febf4d8d22 ]

The MII code does not check the return value of mdio_read (among
others), and therefore no error code should be sent. A previous fix to
the use of an uninitialized variable propagates negative error codes,
that might lead to wrong operations by the MII library.

An example of such issues is the use of mii_nway_restart by the dm9601
driver. The mii_nway_restart function does not check the value returned
by mdio_read, which in this case might be a negative number which could
contain the exact bit the function checks (BMCR_ANENABLE = 0x1000).

Return zero in case of error, as it is common practice in users of
mdio_read to avoid wrong uses of the return value.

Fixes: 8f8abb863fa5 ("net: usb: dm9601: fix uninitialized variable use in dm9601_mdio_read")
Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225-dm9601_ret_err-v1-1-02c1d959ea59@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c